delubrum.org: free open source font resources

Note: Due to the impending shutdown of GeoCities, I have moved my website to delubrum.org. At the moment, I have simply copied the site, and so some links may not work. Feel free to email me about these.

There are few webpages listing free font resources that are free in the sense of the Free Software Foundation. Free software is similar to (but slightly different than) open source software, and includes such software projects as GNU and Linux. This webpage focuses on free font resources primarily for European Latin-based scripts, and secondarily for Greek and Cyrillic-based scripts. I don't know anything about other scripts, but I think it would be great if there were a similar page for other scripts.

I focus on scalable outline fonts (usually in Postscript Type 1, TrueType, or OpenType format), but there are also very nice bitmap fonts, particularly monospaced fonts for coding.

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Free Fonts to Download Here

Aurulent Sans is a sans serif font I'm developing for use as the primary interface font on X Windows on GNU/Linux. I am developing it using MetaType1 and FontForge. The following is an initial release of the primary Latin alphabet, digits, and punctuation, as well as some accents. A monospace version is also included. (The download is a gzip'ed tar file (.tgz) since GeoCities does not allow arbitrary file types.) Here is a pdf sample that shows the four basic styles: regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. This is a Typophile thread critiquing Aurulent Sans.

Verily Serif Mono is derived from Bitstream Vera Serif with the same proportions as Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Only the primary ASCII characters have been modified; I have no plans at the moment to modify the extended character set or to do a bold version.
Verily Serif Mono is released under the Vera license, with the exception that the name does not need to be changed from "Verily." Verily is so named since I have seen many posts asking whether a Bitstream Vera Serif Mono font exists; verily, it does now. Download Verily Serif Mono in OpenType format, along with the FontForge source file and auxiliary files. (The download is a gzip'ed tar file (.tgz) since GeoCities does not allow arbitrary file types.)

txtt is the typewriter font of the txfonts collection by Young Ryu. Besides being a very nice typewriter font for TeX, it also works well for viewing on-screen. I have modified txtt so that it is suitable for use by any program. Specifically, I removed the "visible space" character from the space, removed the slash from zero, and enlarged and vertically centered the tilde. The resulting font is similar to Luxi Mono, which I also like a lot.
Both the original and modified versions are released under the GPL, with the font linking exception. Download the Postscript pfb and afm and the FontForge source file. (The download is a gzip'ed tar file (.tgz) since GeoCities does not allow arbitrary file types.)

Other Free Fonts

These are scalable outline fonts in TrueType, Postscript Type 1, or OpenType format.
These fonts are all really free, in the sense that they can be used (including commercially), modified, and redistributed.
There might be other restrictions, however.
The last column lists whether or not the font has support for TeX. The article A Survey of Free Math Fonts contains a more detailed survey on which free fonts for TeX/LaTeX also have math support.
I'm also working on a script to produce samples of each font in PDF format and in PNGs on an HTML page. The main tools are bash scripts, AbiWord, Ghostscript, and ImageMagick.

Disclaimer: I've tried to keep this list accurate and current, but I make no guarantees. Please make sure that you verify the license information before you use any of these fonts.

Key:comm: commercial use permitted; mod: modifications permitted, possibly with some naming or acknowledgement restriction; no$: may not be sold or charged for redistributionstyles: roman, italic, oblique, bold, bold italic, bold oblique.

Notable Free-as-in-Beer Fonts

These are scalable outline fonts in TrueType, Postscript Type 1, or OpenType format.
These fonts are free to use and distribute, but not free to modify.
The last column lists whether or not the font has support for TeX.